Simon Riggs has died(m6n.io)

793 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 211 comments

Mastodon post by Josh Berkus reporting that PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs died in a small airplane crash, noting his contributions to replication.

Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability(mastodon.social)

140 points by TotempaaltJ 3 years ago | 84 comments

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.

The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam(mastodon.social)

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays(mas.to)

20 points by riffraff 9 months ago | 6 comments

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory(mathstodon.xyz)

516 points by IngoBlechschmid 3 months ago | 217 comments

Mastodon thread by Ingo Blechschmidt describing how since Linux 6.9 the LUKS suspend tool silently failed to wipe disk-encryption keys from memory.

Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says(apnews.com)

669 points by cbg0 2 years ago | 734 comments

AP News article reporting that the European Union found Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams with its Office software.

Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses(bleepingcomputer.com)

464 points by speckx 11 months ago | 291 comments

News report that Microsoft Azure mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet using about 500,000 IP addresses.

Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service(propublica.org)

449 points by hn_acker 7 months ago | 206 comments

ProPublica investigation into how federal cybersecurity reviewers approved Microsoft's cloud service under FedRAMP despite serious doubts about its security.

Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash(wired.com)

444 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 397 comments

Wired article reporting that Microsoft will make its AI Recall screen-recording feature opt-in and add privacy protections after security criticism.

I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records(blog.faav.net)

287 points by luispa 28 days ago | 120 comments

A security researcher's blog post describing a Microsoft internal analytics service flaw where unchecked token signatures allowed admin access to query 17.3 trillion records.

Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products(windowscentral.com)

323 points by mohi-kalantari 10 months ago | 274 comments

A Windows Central article arguing that Microsoft faces weak demand and low usage for its AI products such as Copilot.